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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What eventually happens to the sample?

2. Which scientist gives Bryce and Jenny their report?

3. What is Dr. Chakrabarty's little miracle actually called?

4. Who tells Timothy Flyte what is going on in Snowfield?

5. What substance does the creature resemble microscopically?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does science reveal about the victims and about the creature's use of them?

2. What happens after the helicopter drops the Biosan-4 and they spray the first representation that the A.E. sends them?

3. Who does the creature promise to spare, and why?

4. What kind of people make up the team that Copperfield brings with him?

5. What does Copperfield's approach to the whole situation cost him?

6. What lesson does the entity feel compelled to re-administer after Copperfield and his team arrive?

7. What does scientist Sara Yamaguchi report to Bryce and Jenny after their investigation?

8. What is so unusual about the conditions at the Sheffield home that Frank and Gordy ask Bryce to come and look?

9. What happens to Fletcher Kale in the woods near Jake Johnson's cabin?

10. What brainstorm does Sara have that she is afraid to voice out loud, but that the others sense hope in?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Sara Yamaguchi and what are her credentials? What report does she deliver to Bryce and Jennifer after conducting a cursory autopsy of one of the bodies? What answers does this provide them? What does she determine the cause of death of most of the victims is? What other anomaly does she discover and what analogy does she draw to help them understand what she is telling them? What worries her as she is giving her report and what discoveries are made as a result?

Essay Topic 2

What is consistent about most of the bodies that are found in Snowfield? How do they defy any normal logic that as a doctor, Jennifer might apply? What is immediately noticeable about most of these bodies? Which ones are different in condition in the town and where are they found? How are those three people killed? Why is it likely that the Liebermann's bodies are never found? How is that consistent with the rest of the missing townspeople?

Essay Topic 3

Who in the group realizes that his occupation has squandered the gifts he was given? To what gifts is he referring? What promise does he make to himself and to God if he survives the ordeal in Snowfield? What happens that makes him believe he is being given a second chance? In reality, what is the source of this vision? What happens when he approaches, despite warnings not to from everyone else? Why is it likely that his death is so graphic and disturbing?

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